Grape’s installation drawings: Conceal-Reveal



SCRIM FABRIC PROPERTIES
A scrim or gauze is a very light textile made from cotton, or sometimes flax. It is lightweight and translucence. Scrims both reflect and transmit light. This means that if a light from a front-of-house position is shone at a scrim, then both the scrim and everything behind it will be lit.

This can lead to a variety of interesting effects:
• A scrim will appear entirely opaque if everything behind it is unlit and the scrim itself is grazed by light from the sides or from above.
• A scrim will appear nearly transparent if a scene behind it is lit, but there is no light on the scrim.
• A dreamy or foggy look can be achieved by lighting a scene entirely behind a scrim.

If a light is aimed a­t a scrim, the image will appear on the scrim, but also any objects behind the scrim will be lit by the pattern as well.


MATERIALS
The installation’s construction materials are consisted of 9 pieces of 2” by 4” inches Para wood, Linin scrim fabric 2.8 meters by 4.5 meters dimension and two white-xenon spotlights 50 watt including portable battery. The tools including metal nails, hot glues and staple gun.

CONSTRUCTION
The vertical structure’s height is 2.20 meters and horizontal member is about 2 meters in each side. There are connected together by metal plates, nails and hot glue. Then stretching the scrim fabric onto the panels by a staple gun. Trying to hide the joist rigidly and cover it tightly with fabric. Later put the xenon spotlights in opposite to the panel positions about 2-3 meters further away.

INSTALLATION LAYOUT
The intervention is placed in perpendicular; composed of two adjacent partitions adhered to each other. The bases are connected both on the ground and above to firmly stabilize the structure and to avoid falling down back or forth.

INTENDED EFFECTS
It’s the act of doing things together; where you, the viewer, can be part of the experience.
You can both be a part of participant and audience just where the position you are in.
Hence, creating a temporarily moment of peeking or watching other people doing some activity without the awareness of him-herself. As if you are a voyeur.

HOW?
Activity involving human gestures and movements that seems to be expose to each other while trying to be obscure from other who is irrelevant with the event or in this case, the observer that peeping at some distance.


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